tbf, I think "a homosexual" (noun) sounds a bit weird & dog-whistley (tho I wldnt judge till I saw the context). A bit like
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Trump saying "THE gays" & "THE blacks". Plural homosexuals (no article) & adjective homosexual sound fine 2 me.
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Yes, no idea why. Singular just sounds weird to me. But "a homosexual man/woman" also feels fine to me tho, weird.
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call any1 an "invert" tho. There's sthing dehumanising abt placing an article in front of certain terms. "Muslims" is
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neutral, merely descriptive. "The Muslims" sounds like a unified phalanx & vaguely threatening. Hence dogwhistle.
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I'll stop calling a gay person a homersexual if they stop calling everyone else "cis-hetero normative" or equivalent.
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Most gay men are not SocJus loons. This annoys SocJus loons.
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I assume most gay men don't care about what you call them or about pronouns. My comment was directed at those "SocJus loons"
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what does "greedy" have to do with lgbt? i'd say im confused, but i can't use that word either.
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Didn't even notice that. Ppl do say that about bisexuals sometimes. Some might find it annoying.
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ffs, what is wrong with trans-sexual?
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I don't know. There must be a reason that's developed in diiscourses around trans issues. Handy to know but no policing!
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Also somebody should inform all the teachers of Queer Studies that the names of their courses are bigoted now.
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it is not. ..the author is an idiot
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Only thing about "homosexual" is that it sounds technical and prudish, so outside a social science setting is a bit comical.
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Also, ppl used 2 differentiate b/ween 'gay' (just happen 2b attracted 2 own sex) & 'queer' (more like 'genderfuckery'). Younger
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generation don't seem 2b using 'faggot' or 'poof' anymore (those were reclaimed proudly by my friends at uni).
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